True Blood and the Plasma TV

Remember those appeals you see on television about how you can feed a child somewhere for two pennies a day or something? I don’t exactly remember the details because I always mute them but this is a case that’s even more important than those commercials.

You see, Judy Wright participated in the ‘True Blood’ survey and apparently she answered all the questions right. To do this, she bought the DVD of the series and listened to every commentary track. She did this all in under a week. Impressive? You bet.

She even gave this survey her home address and email address (which she never does). So she’s watched the shows, listened to the commentaries and answered the surveys, even handed over information that could lead to someone tracking her down in her home or subjecting her to an influx of spam. She feels like she’s done the work and she deserves the reward. The reward in this case? A 42 inch plasma television.

She asked that I check her emails for her to see if she had won because she was unable to get up the stairs to see the computer herself. She was so confident that she’d won, you should’ve heard her confident voice…and then her disappointment when none of the 51 emails she’d gotten were from this survey.

She requested I look through the emails again, because surely I’d missed something. She said to look for a subject heading like ‘You’ve won’ or ‘You worked so hard, you get a plasma TV’ but even after looking again, there was no email to be found.

Judy Wright was heartbroken. She was like a little lamb who got its heart broken…except Judy is a person and not a lamb.

So if this story touches your heart, do something about it. Send emails to HBO, your elected officials and of course, Neil Diamond. Let’s remember what it was like when we cared about each other and help Judy Wright get her plasma television. Let’s not let the time she spent listening to DVD commentary be in vain. I know I won’t. How ’bout you?